AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 Mobile and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1077MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 20.32GB/s)

2272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 Mobile +8171%

4.963 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

0.06 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 Mobile

VS

GeForce 8600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Oct 2007

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1077 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

635 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

20.32GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

2304

Shading Units

32

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

34.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.760 GPixel/s

155.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.520 GTexel/s

4.963 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.963 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.16 GFLOPS

310.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

G84

Ellesmere XT

GPU Variant

NB8P-GS

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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